0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Two more teams are attempting to clear the first of several
0:00:32 > 0:00:36hurdles that stand between them and the title of series champions.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Whichever team wins tonight will earn themselves
0:00:38 > 0:00:40a place in the second round
0:00:40 > 0:00:42and the losers could get a chance to play again if their total is
0:00:42 > 0:00:47amongst the four highest losing scores in the entire first round.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Leicester University were the first series champions back in 1962
0:00:51 > 0:00:53and tonight's team quite rightly reckon
0:00:53 > 0:00:55they have rested on their laurels a little too long.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59It was founded as Leicester and Rutland University College
0:00:59 > 0:01:04in 1921 on land donated by a local manufacturer and philanthropist Thomas Fielding Johnson,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08to serve as a living memorial to the dead of the First World War.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12It became a university in its own right in 1957.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Alumni include the novelists CP Snow and Malcolm Bradbury.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Its staff include Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of genetic fingerprinting
0:01:20 > 0:01:24and the team who recently discovered the remains of Richard III under a city centre car park.
0:01:24 > 0:01:30With an average age of 31, representing around 17,000 students,
0:01:30 > 0:01:31let's meet the Leicester team.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm John O'Doherty, originally from Portsmouth,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Hello, I'm Adam Brown, I'm originally from Solihull
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and I'm currently studying towards a PhD in mechanical engineering.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43This is their captain.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Hello, I am Robert Greenhill, I'm from Leicester
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and I'm studying humanities and arts.
0:01:49 > 0:01:54Hello, my name is Nadal al-Masri and I am also from Leicester
0:01:54 > 0:01:56and I'm reading history.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59APPLAUSE
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Now, the team from the Open University are one up
0:02:03 > 0:02:07on their opponents tonight, having been series champions twice
0:02:07 > 0:02:11in the past, or the institution, at least, in 1984 and 1999.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15It was born out of Harold Wilson's vision of a university of the air
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and on becoming Prime Minister in 1964,
0:02:18 > 0:02:22he appointed his Arts Minister, Jennie Lee, to make it a reality.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24The first students enrolled in 1971.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Since then, it has grown to be the UK's largest institution
0:02:28 > 0:02:32in terms of student numbers, now having over a quarter of a million.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Alumni include the actresses Julie Christie and Sheila Hancock,
0:02:35 > 0:02:39Micky Dolenz of The Monkees and the comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Those who have taught there include Gordon Brown
0:02:41 > 0:02:44and Glenda Jackson, and the broadcaster Anna Ford.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Tonight's team say their strengths are knitting and red wine.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Whilst admitting that red wine is also one of their weaknesses!
0:02:51 > 0:02:54With an average age of 40, let's meet them.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Hello, my name is Danielle Gibney.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58I'm originally from Amsterdam in the Netherlands
0:02:58 > 0:03:00and I'm studying social sciences.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Hello, my name is Stuart Taylor.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Originally from Stratford-upon-Avon
0:03:04 > 0:03:06and I'm studying development management.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07And their captain...
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Hello, I am Lynne Jones.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I'm a local lass from Bolton in Lancashire
0:03:12 > 0:03:15and I'm studying languages and history.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Hello, my name is Kate Law. I live in Sutherland
0:03:17 > 0:03:20in the Scottish Highlands and I'm reading engineering.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22APPLAUSE
0:03:25 > 0:03:27OK. It is too tedious to recite the rules,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31so fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Originally defined as the population of able-bodied
0:03:33 > 0:03:37men above the age of 15 in a county within the sheriff may summon
0:03:37 > 0:03:41to repress a riot or pursue felons, what short term
0:03:41 > 0:03:46derives from a Latin phrase meaning to be able to have an armed...
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Posse.- Posse is correct, yes.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50APPLAUSE
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Posse comitatus.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57So these bonuses. The first set are on coal, Open University.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00From the Greek for coal, what term denotes hard coal of high carbon
0:04:00 > 0:04:03content that burns with little flame or smoke?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10- I think that that produces... - Sorry?- I think that that produces...
0:04:10 > 0:04:16- it's not anthracite or something? - Anthracite.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18- Anthracite.- Correct.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Referring to a black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons,
0:04:21 > 0:04:25what adjective describes the most abundant form of coal with
0:04:25 > 0:04:27a wide range of commercial uses?
0:04:31 > 0:04:36- Don't know...- Don't know anything about coal!- No?- No.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37It's bituminous coal.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40And for the Latin for wood, finally, what term denotes coal of low
0:04:40 > 0:04:44energy density, midway between subbituminous coal and peat.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47It is generally brownish in colour.
0:04:49 > 0:04:56- I can only think of coke.- No... - No, it's not coke. Carbon...
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Lignin? That's Greek for wood, isn't it?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Go for it.- Lignin?- Lignite, I think.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Lignite?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Lignite.- Lignite is correct. Yes.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07APPLAUSE
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Ten points for this.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11The Amati family were makers of what musical instruments?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13In the mid-16th century,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Andrea Amati developed an early standard form
0:05:15 > 0:05:18of the instrument in Cremona...
0:05:20 > 0:05:21- Violin?- Correct.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24APPLAUSE
0:05:24 > 0:05:27You're off your mark. Your bonuses are on homophones.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31In each case, give the single pronunciation shared by both the words described.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Firstly, the vegetable Allium porrum
0:05:33 > 0:05:37and a path between isolated parts of a circuit with reduced
0:05:37 > 0:05:39resistance allowing small currents to flow?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41- Leak.- Leak is correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Secondly, a root vegetable with high-levels of provitamin A
0:05:45 > 0:05:49and an inverted V shape used in proofreading to indicate
0:05:49 > 0:05:51where something should be inserted.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54In Latin, the word means "It is lacking."
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- Carrot.- Correct.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00A beet with dark green leaves, thirdly, and succulent stalks
0:06:00 > 0:06:02that are often cooked as a vegetable,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04and an adjective meaning burnt.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10I was going to say okra... No.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15THEY WHISPER
0:06:18 > 0:06:22- We don't know. - It's charred. Ten points for this.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25The Danish physician Niels Finsen gives his name to a unit that
0:06:25 > 0:06:30measures the intensity of rays in which band of the electromagnetic spectrum?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33He received the 1903 Nobel prize for their application
0:06:33 > 0:06:35in the treatment skin diseases.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Infrared? - Anyone like to buzz from Leicester?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Ultraviolet?- Correct.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48APPLAUSE
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Your bonuses, Leicester, are on diseases of trees using
0:06:51 > 0:06:54information from the Forestry Commission website.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58In each case, give the scientific or the common name of the genus or
0:06:58 > 0:07:03species affected. First, DNB, or red band needle blight.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06It is caused by a fungus and affects conifers,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09in particular those of which genus?
0:07:10 > 0:07:14THEY WHISPER
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Yeah, well, that's a good genus, isn't it?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- Pine.- Correct.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Cryphonectria parasitica is a fungus that has caused severe
0:07:26 > 0:07:29epidemics resulting in the widespread loss of which tree,
0:07:29 > 0:07:33noted for its edible seed used in cooking, or to make flour?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Edible seed...?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39THEY CONFER
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- Nominate O'Doherty.- Almond?
0:07:49 > 0:07:50No, it's chestnut.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52The sweet or Spanish chestnut.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57The fungus Chalara fraxinea is the cause of a serious disease
0:07:57 > 0:08:01known as dieback that affects which common species of deciduous tree?
0:08:01 > 0:08:02- Ash.- Correct.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07For your pictures starter you'll see a map of part of the UK
0:08:07 > 0:08:11on which is highlighted a lake formed by glaciation.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Ten points if you can name the lake.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- Ullswater.- Well done.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23APPLAUSE
0:08:25 > 0:08:27These bonuses could give you the lead.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30They are more maps featuring inland bodies of water
0:08:30 > 0:08:32formed by glaciation.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Give the name the lake in each case. Firstly, for five.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42THEY CONFER
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Is it near Betws-y-Coed?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47It's near Betws-y-Coed, so...
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- Vrynwy?- Coed Water?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54- Lake Vyrnwy?- No, that's an artificial lake. It's Bala Lake.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Secondly...
0:08:58 > 0:09:01That's... That's Lough Neagh.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05- Oh, yes. Lough Neagh.- Yes.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Lough Neagh.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Lough Neagh is correct, yes. And finally, this one, please.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Scotland... Where is that in Scotland? Is Loch Lomond?
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- It could be.- It is quite far down...
0:09:21 > 0:09:22- Lomond?- It is Loch Lomond, yes.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25APPLAUSE
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Ten point at stake for this.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Born in County Kilkenny in 1761,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33the architect James Hoban is best known for the design
0:09:33 > 0:09:38of which neoclassical building known until 1902 as the Executive Mansion?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- The White House?- Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43APPLAUSE
0:09:43 > 0:09:47These bonuses are on a novelist, Leicester.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The Arrow Of God and A Man Of The People
0:09:50 > 0:09:54are works by which Nigerian novelist who died in 2013?
0:09:54 > 0:09:55- Chinua Achebe.- Correct.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Referring to a short novel in 1899,
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Achebe criticised which author for turning the African continent
0:10:03 > 0:10:07into a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognisable humanity?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- Joseph Conrad. - Correct, Heart Of Darkness.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13First published in 1960, Achebe's novel No Longer At Ease
0:10:13 > 0:10:18takes its title from lines in the Journey Of The Magi by which poet?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27THEY CONFER
0:10:27 > 0:10:30- TS Eliot.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31APPLAUSE
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Used figuratively for a concluding event or remark,
0:10:34 > 0:10:38what term was originally used in music to signify a passage
0:10:38 > 0:10:42introduced after the completion of the essential parts of a movement
0:10:42 > 0:10:45to form a definite and satisfactory conclusion?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48- Coda.- Correct.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53You get a set of bonuses this time on ballets with music by Stravinsky.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57Firstly, which ballet opens with the birth the eponymous Greek god
0:10:57 > 0:11:01and depicts his coming of age under the tutelage of the three Muses?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05THEY CONFER
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Apollo...
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Yeah.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14- Apollo.- Correct.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Depicting a 19th-century wedding,
0:11:16 > 0:11:20what is the French title of the 1923 ballet,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22the score of which consists of vocal parts
0:11:22 > 0:11:24accompanied by two groups of percussion,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27one tuned and one untuned?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36THEY CONFER
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- We don't know.- That is Les Noces.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47And finally, the eponymous hero, amour and a ballerina
0:11:47 > 0:11:51are the three puppets embroiled in a love triangle in which ballet?
0:11:51 > 0:11:52- Petrushka.- Correct.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Ten points for this.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Which figure from Greek mythology features as a hologram and watermark
0:11:58 > 0:12:03on a new five-euro note issued by the European Central Bank in 2013?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05She was a noble Phoenician woman
0:12:05 > 0:12:08who bore sons including Minos of Crete, having been...
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- Europa.- Correct.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12APPLAUSE
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Right, these bonuses, Leicester, are on books about economics.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Firstly, for five points,
0:12:18 > 0:12:23subtitled A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26what's the title of the 2005 bestseller by Steven Levitt
0:12:26 > 0:12:28and Stephen Dubner?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Nominate O'Doherty.- Freakonomics.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Freakonomics is right.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36The title of which 2007 work by Nassim Taleb has come to be used
0:12:36 > 0:12:40colloquially to mean an unexpected and rare occurrence?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48THEY CONFER
0:12:52 > 0:12:53- Don't know.- We don't know.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57The Black Swan. How Do We Fix This Mess?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00is a 2012 work about the global economic crisis
0:13:00 > 0:13:03co-written by Laurence Knight and which journalist?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07In 2013, he became the economics editor for BBC News.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- Preston.- Robert Preston.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13First isolated in 1783 by charcoal reduction of the oxide
0:13:13 > 0:13:17derived from the mineral wolframite, which metallic element...
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Tungsten.- Correct.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22APPLAUSE
0:13:22 > 0:13:26These bonuses are on the nervous system, Leicester.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30What general term denotes substances released from synaptic vesicles
0:13:30 > 0:13:34which bind to the postsynaptic membrane and elicit a response?
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- Nominate O'Doherty. - Neurotransmitter.- Correct.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41What is the neurotransmitter at neuromuscular junctions
0:13:41 > 0:13:42of the autonomic motor system?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Nominate O'Doherty. - Acetylcholine.- Correct.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54For what do the letters GABA stand?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Nominate O'Doherty.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Gamma-aminobutyric acid.- Correct.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01APPLAUSE
0:14:03 > 0:14:06We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13# Young hearts... #
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Rod Stewart.- It is Rod Stewart, yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18APPLAUSE
0:14:18 > 0:14:21You look rather embarrassed to know that!
0:14:21 > 0:14:22LAUGHTER
0:14:22 > 0:14:24His Young Turks featured on the soundtrack
0:14:24 > 0:14:26to Grand Theft Auto San Andreas,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29one of several Scottish associations in the series
0:14:29 > 0:14:32that pay tributes to the game's origins in Dundee.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35For your bonus, here are three more Scottish artists or bands
0:14:35 > 0:14:37that have featured in the soundtracks
0:14:37 > 0:14:39of the Grand Theft Auto series.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Firstly, for five, this band.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43# I don't want a lover
0:14:44 > 0:14:46# I just need a friend
0:14:48 > 0:14:50# I don't want a lover... #
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- Texas.- Correct.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Secondly, the artist and composer of this song, please.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58SAXOPHONE MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- Gerry Rafferty.- Gerry Rafferty.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- That's Gerry Rafferty.- It is indeed. And, finally, this band.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10# I like kicking in the gutter
0:15:10 > 0:15:13# And wishing I was lucky
0:15:13 > 0:15:15# Wishing I was lucky
0:15:15 > 0:15:17# Wishing I was lucky... #
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- Wet Wet Wet. - Correct.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Right, ten points for this.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Anthony Browne, Quentin Blake
0:15:27 > 0:15:31and Jacqueline Wilson have all held which title...?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- Children's Laureate.- Correct.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Your bonuses are on the languages of London, Open University,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42according to the 2011 Census.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44In each case, name the language from the description.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48Firstly, which Cushitic language is the most spoken African
0:15:48 > 0:15:52main language in London, with around 55,000 speakers?
0:15:54 > 0:15:55What's Cushitic?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02I suppose it's either around... Either Nigeria or...
0:16:04 > 0:16:05So, I think Nigeria.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- Just try Nigerian.- Nigerian?
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Nigerian.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14No, it's Somali.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Two South Asian main languages have more than 100,000 speakers.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20One is Bengali, what's the other?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23It was the first language of Mahatma Gandhi.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Hindi or Urdu?
0:16:32 > 0:16:36- I think Punjabi.- Yeah. Punjabi.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37No, it's Gujarati.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Which West Slavic language is the most spoken main language
0:16:41 > 0:16:45after English with more than 140,000 speakers?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Polish.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Polish is correct, ten points for this.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53Since 2011, the graphic novelist Guy Delisle
0:16:53 > 0:16:57and the chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi and the historian
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Simon Sebag-Montefiore have all published books...?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Jerusalem.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Jerusalem is correct, yes.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10These bonuses are on geology, Open University.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13It's name meaning new animal life,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17which is the most recent of the three Phanerozoic eras?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Nominate Taylor.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Neo-zine. No.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39No, it's the Cenozoic.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43During the Cenozoic era, which ancient ocean between the continents
0:17:43 > 0:17:47of Gondwana and Laurasia closed as a result of continental collision?
0:17:59 > 0:18:00No, sorry.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02It's the Tethys Ocean.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06The Cenozoic era began with the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09What class of animals proliferated after that event?
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- Mammals.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Nagapie, night ape
0:18:17 > 0:18:22and galago are alternative names for a tree-dwelling primate native
0:18:22 > 0:18:25to Africa and known by what common name,
0:18:25 > 0:18:30thought to refer either to its appearance or cry?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32The aye-aye.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34- No.- Bushbabies.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Correct.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41This set of bonuses, Leicester, are on columns.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Which marble column in Rome was erected in the 2nd century by
0:18:44 > 0:18:48the Emperor after whom it's named to commemorate his campaigns in Dacia?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50- Trajan's Column.- Correct.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Built in imitation of Trajan's Column,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55the statue of Napoleon on the column of the Place Vendome
0:18:55 > 0:18:58was toppled during which uprising of 1871?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Paris Communards.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07The Paris Commune is correct, yes, by the Communards, I think.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Trajan's Column and the column of the Place Vendome
0:19:09 > 0:19:12are examples of which architectural style,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15the simplest of the five classical orders?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- Doric.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22The helix, tragus, triangular fossa and...
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- Ear.- The ear is correct, yes.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30These bonuses, Leicester, are on Latin legal terms.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Meaning "at first sight",
0:19:32 > 0:19:36what two-word phrase is used of a case in which a conclusion is
0:19:36 > 0:19:40indicated but not necessarily proved from the appearance of things?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Prima facie.- Correct.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Meaning "by this very fact", what Latin term is used to signify
0:19:46 > 0:19:49a consequence that is the inevitable result of an act?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- Ipso facto.- Correct.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54And, finally, referring to actions, methods or processes that
0:19:54 > 0:19:59are particular to one person, what phrase is often abbreviated to MO?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Modus operandi.- That's correct.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:20:05 > 0:20:08a photograph of a well-known British figure.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11For ten points, I simply want his name.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- Edward Heath.- It is Edward Heath at the helm of one of his yachts.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19One of his hobbies was yachting
0:20:19 > 0:20:22and conducting orchestras extremely badly.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25For your bonuses, you will see three US presidents
0:20:25 > 0:20:27engaged in extra-curricular activities.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Five points for each president you can name. Firstly...
0:20:33 > 0:20:35That's Dwight Eisenhower.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37It is indeed, painting. Secondly...
0:20:39 > 0:20:40That's Harry Truman.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42It is. And finally?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47That looks like a young George Bush Snr.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49It is George H W Bush, yes.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Ten points for this.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Who scored nine goals in the 1984 European Championship finals
0:20:59 > 0:21:03tournament won by the French team...?
0:21:03 > 0:21:04Is it Platini?
0:21:04 > 0:21:05It is Platini, yes.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11These bonuses, Open University, are on geography.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Around 30km long, which narrow stretch of gravel and shingle
0:21:14 > 0:21:18runs along the Dorset coast, sheltering the town of Weymouth?
0:21:19 > 0:21:20- Chesil Beach.- Correct.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Chesil Beach is connected to which island?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Its quarries provided limestone for St Paul's Cathedral.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27- Portland.- Correct.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31The area around Chesil Beach has been identified as the setting
0:21:31 > 0:21:36for which story of smuggling by John Meade Falkner, published in 1898?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- Come on.- No, sorry.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49It's Moonfleet. Ten points for this.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Answer clearly and audibly as soon as your name is called.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56What word is spelt by concatenating the silent
0:21:56 > 0:22:00letters in the words sawed, business and autumn?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Win.- Yes.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Your bonuses are on scientific terms.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16All begin with the same Greek prefix.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Give each term, please, from the definition.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22A conic section, firstly, formed by the intersection of a plane
0:22:22 > 0:22:24with both halves of a double cone.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34- Tangent?- No, it's a hyperbola.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Secondly, a term used in biology to describe a solution of higher
0:22:38 > 0:22:40osmotic pressure than another.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Hypertonic.- Hypertonic.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Correct.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48In medicine, a term denoting abnormally high blood
0:22:48 > 0:22:50pressure in humans.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Hypertension.- Correct.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55There's about five minutes to go and here's another starter question.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00Which clear, colourless liquid has the chemical formula CHCL3?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03The Scottish physician Sir James Simpson...?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Chloroform.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Correct, yes.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Your bonuses this time are on German cities.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15In each case, give the federal state in which the following are located.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18You can give their English or their German name.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Firstly, Cologne, Dortmund and Essen.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Nordrhein-Westfalen.- Correct.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Secondly, Leipzig, Kemnitz and Zwickau.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49- Come on.- Saxony.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Correct. Finally, Nuremburg, Regensburg and Augsburg.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58- Bavaria.- Bavaria is correct, four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Listen carefully, give both answers as soon as your name is called.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Name the two men who were Prime Minister at the accession
0:24:05 > 0:24:08of Queen Victoria and at her death.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Melbourne and Salisbury.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Your bonuses are on astronomy now, Open University.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18In 2010, the astronomer Mark Thompson suggested that the
0:24:18 > 0:24:20appearance of the star of Bethlehem may have been
0:24:20 > 0:24:24caused by conjunctions involving the star Regulus and which planet?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Venus? Venus is very bright.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35Unless they're expecting Venus and it's something else.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Venus. - No, it's Jupiter.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Regulus is the brightest star in which constellation
0:24:40 > 0:24:44lying in the northern sky between Cancer and Virgo?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46- E-o.- No, Leo.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48- Leo.- I think you misheard it. - Yes, I did.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50No, I can't accept that, it's Leo.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54And, finally, having its point of apparent origin in Leo,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57the Leonids meteor shower reaches a peak in which month?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- August.- No, it's November. Ten points for this.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Which city on the Atlantic coast of Africa is generally said to
0:25:09 > 0:25:11be the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital
0:25:11 > 0:25:16in the world ahead of Brasilia, Maputo and Lisbon?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Dakar?- No.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Luanda?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Luanda is correct, yes.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Leicester, your bonuses are on French artists.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32In each case, listen to the two names and give the unique
0:25:32 > 0:25:37full decade of the 19th century, during which both were alive.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42First, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- 1850s.- Correct.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Secondly, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Come on, let's have it, please. - 1870s.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Correct. Finally, Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- 1890s.- Correct, well done.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Ten points for this.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30In ancient Greek theatre, what name was given to the circular or
0:26:30 > 0:26:34semi-circular area in which the chorus would dance?
0:26:34 > 0:26:38It has since come to mean a large and specific group of musicians.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Orchestra.- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Your bonuses are on Roman Britain.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48In each case, give the present-day name of the following settlements.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50All three names have the same suffix.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Firstly, for five points, Camulodunum,
0:26:53 > 0:26:57the first Roman colony in Britain founded in AD 49.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02- Colchester.- Correct.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Second, Venta Belgarum, later an Anglo-Saxon capital.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10- Winchester.- Correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Finally, Durnovaria, situated close to the hill-fought Maiden Castle.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- Dorchester.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22"Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to
0:27:22 > 0:27:25"answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Which French thinker makes that statement
0:27:28 > 0:27:31in the 1942 work The Myth...?
0:27:31 > 0:27:32Sartre.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35No, you lose five points, The Myth Of Sisyphus?
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Camus.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Albert Camus is correct,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41you get a set of bonuses on the Mitford sisters.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Which of the Mitford sisters wrote of her upbringing
0:27:44 > 0:27:48and eccentric family in the 1960 work Hons and Rebels,
0:27:48 > 0:27:52and three years earlier, published The American Way Of Death?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56- Jessica.- Correct.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58GONG SOUNDS
0:27:58 > 0:27:59And at the gong,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Open University have 190, Leicester have 245.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Well, it was a pretty good game.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Quite a high-scoring game and, Open University, I think
0:28:11 > 0:28:13I'd take a small wager that you'll be coming back
0:28:13 > 0:28:15as one of the highest-scoring losing teams.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Congratulations to you, Leicester,
0:28:17 > 0:28:19you certainly go through to the second round.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- but until then, it's goodbye from the Open University...- Goodbye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- ..it's goodbye from Leicester University...- Goodbye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32APPLAUSE